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Breaking New Grounds in Non-Financial Risk Management

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Non-financial risks (NFR) have become as important as traditional financial risks (especially credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk). The authors present a taxonomy for structuring NFR. Using this taxonomy, the authors develop impact graphs using graph databases in order to analyze events and scenarios that bear non-financial risks.

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    Volatility‚ uncertainty‚ complexity, and ambiguity.

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    Financial risks could be further divided into credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk.

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    The graph was generated with the graph database Neo4j (see Neo4j, Inc 2020).

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    In short: Siegfried, crown prince of Xanten, killed a dragon and bathed in its blood. This made him invulnerable except for a single spot on his back. There, a leaf from a linden tree had fallen on Siegfried’s back giving him his well-known vulnerability.

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    In this case, the benchmark is based on external peer groups but can be extended to internal structures like departments, business units, or legal entities.

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    Data lake: The term data lake is commonly used to describe a single data store that holds large amounts of raw data as well as processed data of an organization. It may include both structured and unstructured data objects.

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Liermann, V., Viets, N., Radermacher, D. (2021). Breaking New Grounds in Non-Financial Risk Management. In: Liermann, V., Stegmann, C. (eds) The Digital Journey of Banking and Insurance, Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78814-8_10

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